https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/new-york-times-names-meredith-kopit-levien-as-next-ceo-1.1469058

New York Times Co. named Meredith Kopit Levien as its next chief executive officer, trusting her to continue the digital success that the newspaper has enjoyed under Mark Thompson.

Kopit Levien, 49, takes over the top job Sept. 8. Thompson, who’s about to turn 63, said in a statement that he chose this moment to step down “because we have achieved everything I set out to do when I joined the Times Company eight years ago.”

Bloomberg News reported in February that Kopit Levien, now the chief operating officer, was the front-runner to succeed Thompson.

Though President Donald Trump needles the paper as “the failing New York Times,” Thompson and Kopit Levien have overseen a period of robust growth as the Times has emphasized digital products and subscription revenue, rather than relying on ad sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Kopit_Levien

She graduated from the University of Virginia where she majored in rhetoric

https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/armenia-threatens-to-strike-azerbaijans-largest-dam-paving-way-for-catastrophic-disasters-2020-7-22-0/

"I will not disclose a military secret — this has been openly admitted in Armenia's general staff — that Armenian or NKR [the illegal separatist formation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan] artillery batteries, stationed at the top of Karabakh mountains, are 40 kilometers away from the Mingachevir reservoir. One strike and central Azerbaijan will turn into a sea," Arutyunov said.

Mingachevir hydropower complex is the largest dam of its kind in the entire Caucasus with an overall surface area of 605 square kilometers (234 sq mi), roughly the same size as Spain's capital Madrid. The installed power generation capacity of the station is 402 megawatts that enables to churn out 1.4 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of hydroelectric energy per year. The complex provides energy for over forty cities and districts in Azerbaijan including capital Baku and second-largest city of Ganja.

Consequences of a possible strike on the Mingachevir reservoir could be quite catastrophic for Azerbaijan and the entire region. Officials at the National Center of Environmental Forecasting insist that water from the destroyed dam could inundate a huge territory in Azerbaijan stretching from the country's central part toward east up to capital Baku over 240 kilometers. Such damage could lead to dramatic environmental, infrastructure and humanitarian disasters, which could kill countless civilians.